Volume 1 Chapter 17: Riding Training
"Wow! Who is that person? So impressive! He even has a mount?"
"Let me check... Oh, you see there's only one level 20 guy on the leaderboard, that must be him! Wow, the best player in fantasy, I don't know how he trained, I'm only level 16!"
"Well, what a majestic black horse! I'm also a knight, I'll quickly reach level 20 and get one to show off."
"Hi handsome guy, can you take me with you?"
"Master, how about making friends? Give me two pieces of equipment, and we'll be brothers from now on!"
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As soon as I came out of the return point, many people pointed at me, and soon more people surrounded me, trying to establish relationships with me, trying to get close to me, which made me very annoyed. Alas, it feels good to be cool, but it is not my intention to cause traffic jams!
Fortunately, there was a system-designated stable next to the return point. I quickly paid the NPC a management fee of 10 silver coins (heartbreaking), deposited the Black King, collected all the blue-light-emitting equipment on my body, and then struggled to squeeze into the crowd. Fortunately, there was nothing special about my appearance (the advantage of choosing the human race). After a while, no one could tell who was the so-called number one master, and the crowd gradually dispersed.
Now that I have a mount, I should have taken the time to level up, but the wild horse I just tamed doesn't have a saddle! It's not comfortable to ride on a bare horse, so I had to go back to the city to buy something.
When I arrived at the tack shop, I saw that there were all kinds of riding gear, but the price was too high to bear. Of course, horse gear is divided into high, medium and low grades. The lowest grade is cheap, but although horse gear cannot increase any properties, it has a lot to do with comfort. Low-grade horse gear does not have much effect, while high-grade horse gear is made of high-quality materials and fine workmanship. It is not only beautiful, but also soft and comfortable to sit on, and there will not be too much bump when riding (suspension system).
I thought about it and realized that I still had more than 500 gold coins, which should last me a long time. Although I am a professional player, I am playing games after all. Besides making money, having fun is also very important, so I might as well be extravagant.
"Boss, I want a set of top-quality horse harness."
"A set of top-quality horse gear, 50 gold coins."
Oh... my gold coins! In Fantasy, making money is very difficult. My character attributes are super strong, but if I hadn't beaten so many bosses, I would still not be able to make ends meet. As for ordinary players, even if they don't use continuous thrusts like me to save a lot of magic potions when leveling up, it is still difficult to break even at the current level. If they don't rely on real currency exchange, they can only practice life skills for a while to make money and then beat monsters for a while to level up.
I reluctantly paid 50 gold coins, took the horse gear, and walked out of the store without looking back. I went to the stables at the return point, took a chance when there were fewer people, took the Black King and left, and finally slipped away before most people reacted. It was already past 3:00 in the afternoon, so I didn't plan to level up anymore. I went to the Knight Training Ground to practice my riding skills!
As a professional skill of knights, the training of riding skills is different from combat skills. It cannot be improved by fighting and killing monsters. Only by running circles on horseback, crossing obstacles, jumping, etc. in the training ground can skill proficiency be obtained. Of course, another way is to directly add skill allocation points. Riding skills are so difficult to practice, but they are a very important skill. Not to mention that you cannot upgrade the charge without improving riding skills, the most important thing is that the riding level affects the performance of the mount. Although the basic speed of a wild horse is 100km/h, in fact, as soon as the rider gets on the horse, the speed immediately drops by -50km/h, and the weight correction must be subtracted. The weight correction of the mount is a little different from the player itself. A mount equipped with horse harness will have a backpack in the harness. The weight of this backpack is 1000, but the number of space grids of horse harness backpacks of different grades is different. The best one is 50 grids (this weight and number of grids are fixed and cannot be increased by upgrading). The mount weight is corrected to: 10×〔actual weight of the player (including the weight of the items in the backpack and the weight of the equipment on the body) + the weight of the items loaded in the harness backpack〕/1000, which means that when my riding skill is level 0, if the weight on my body and the backpack are full, then my horse speed is only more than 30 km/h, which is not much faster than walking. Of course, the backpack is still very useful. As long as there is a knight in a team, whether it is loading supplies before the action or loading loot when returning to the city, it can definitely meet the needs. Therefore, the knight is also known as the "mobile warehouse"! And when the riding skill is increased by 1 level, the mount speed is +5km/h, and the 10th level of riding can play 100% of the mount speed!
I came to the training ground behind the Knight's Hall. Since only trainees who have been promoted to apprentice knights are eligible to enter here, I don't have to worry about being disturbed (but riding training is charged according to the length of time). I took out the horse gear from my backpack and put it on Black King. It is true that clothes make the man, and saddles make the horse! With a full set of horse gear, including a gold bridle, a brocade saddle, and bright silver stirrups, Black King looked even more energetic and majestic!
From level 0 to level 20, I have not used all the skill allocation points accumulated from the upgrades. The formula for obtaining skill points is: skill points = (A×D3+4)×1/2×level modification, A=wisdom points, so I can get about 9 skill points per level up on average, and now I have a total of 183 points. One skill allocation point added to a skill can increase the skill proficiency by 30 points. It takes 500 proficiency points to upgrade the riding skill from level 0 to level 1, and the proficiency required for each subsequent level up is +50%, so a total of 4063 proficiency points are required to upgrade to level 4. I added 136 skill allocation points to riding , which immediately upgraded the riding skill to level 4, leaving 47 allocation points for later use. Level 5 riding requires 2532 proficiency points, which requires about 7 hours of specialized training!
But there is no other way. Since I have two professions, there will be many places where I need to allocate skill points in the future, and I can't spend all of it on riding, so I have to spend more time.
Riding is a very boring thing. I was controlling the Black King to repeat the same set of training movements. In less than an hour, I felt depressed. According to the technology of New Era Group, it should be easy to develop some small tricks to add fun to the training. I guess the developers designed it this way on purpose. To become an excellent knight, it is not only about killing monsters and upgrading, but also requires a strong will and enough patience. Other professions also need similar training. I remember a senior professional player once told me that there was a game called Legend that was represented by a company called Shanda and was popular in China. In it, Taoist priests practicing summoning skills also need to summon monsters all day long next to the city guards. But according to analysis, it was Shanda Company to extend the player's game time so as to charge more fees. But New Era Group does not need to use this method at all. The enjoyment of eating, drinking and playing in Zero Degree Fantasy is even better than in reality, which is very attractive to players. I spend a few hours in entertainment venues. I don’t know how much more money the company earns than the training fee!
If you want to get rewards, you have to pay! Mastering high-level riding skills will be of great help to my future game progress, so although my patience has been worn away little by little as time goes by, I insist on doing boring training. Originally, after deciding to choose the knight profession, I planned to take out two hours of riding training every day once I have a mount, and practice riding skills to a higher level as soon as possible.
After practicing for two hours, my proficiency increased by 700 points. Seeing that the time was almost up, I paid the NPC 120 silver coins for training and deposited the Black King at the same time, then I logged off to have dinner.
I quit the game, took off my helmet, stretched my back, and stood up to stretch my muscles. Alas, Fantasy has been open for almost 48 hours, and I have been staying in my room, eating and drinking only convenient foods. Now that I have a certain foundation, I am sure that my level advantage over most players will not be shaken. Shouldn't I relax for a while?
Look at Wei, he is still busy leveling up, good boy, he is already level 18! It seems that he has finished his work early today.
I tapped his helmet. Ah Wei received the prompt signal and logged off. He asked me blankly, "Big Shrimp, why did you insist on asking me to log off when you weren't calling me in the game?"
I laughed and said, "Boy, have you been bewitched by fantasy? You are even more addicted to it than I am. Look at the time. Let's have dinner first and then play!"
"OK, shall we have instant noodles or bread tonight?"
"I bet you'll be malnourished if you eat fast food every day. Let's go out to eat!"
"Wow! Boss, what boss did you defeat again? Did you get rich from the explosive items? You're in such a good mood to treat me to a meal!"
"Fuck, don't try that. I won't fall for it. As usual, we'll go AA. And don't expect me to give you any equipment. I didn't kill any bosses today, and I only leveled up by 1."
"Hmm?" Ah Wei asked doubtfully, "Boss, this is not your style. Could it be that... the last virgin of this century has finally come to his senses and started chasing girls? Congratulations! Come on, Big Shrimp, I will support you!"
I gave him a fierce middle finger. For some reasons during college, I never had a girlfriend in real life or in the game, and was often laughed at by my brothers for this.
"Idiot, have you forgotten that you can get promoted at level 20? And there are no high-level thieves now, so I had to catch a mount by myself, wasting half a day."
"Oh, I see. Boss, I'm very disappointed. Do you know that for such a long time there hasn't been a girl whom I can call my sister-in-law? Following such a boss, it's really embarrassing for us to be his younger brothers!"
$%#%...@#$! I'm so pissed! Damn it, in real life, even though I'm just average, there are girls who have shown interest in me. But in games, which online games I play don't have a lot of girls chasing after me and wanting to be my wife or step-sister? If I hadn't rejected them all, I would have had many wives and concubines. How could you, a kid, go around picking up girls and chasing girls?
After chatting for a while, we changed our clothes and went out...
